InterChina Partners and Wottrich Form Affiliation, Atlanta USA Richard L. Wottrich, CEO and Senior Consultant, International Services, at DSI Global View (Atlanta), has agreed to affiliate with InterChina Partners and InterChina Consultants (Shanghai, Beijing) as a Senior Advisor representing the interests of InterChina in the United States. This affiliation provides a unique ability for DSI to refer new business and clients for applications and solutions in China. Wottrich has consulted with InterChina for several years and is well positioned to evaluate and implement U.S. client strategic plans in China. InterChina Partners InterChina Partners and InterChina Consulting are specialists in China. Their team of 50 professionals has conducted over 600 strategy projects and closed over 185 transactions since inception. Through its unique combination of capabilities, InterChina has delivered the highest quality of services to clients for over 20 years. InterChina is one of the leading advisory firms in China, and the number one alternative to the global consultancies and investment banks. Based in Beijing and Shanghai, InterChina has a sustainable backbone of local and western professionals who have both experience working in China and overseas and have offices and professionals throughout China, the US and Europe. InterChina joined with Clearwater International in 2014, along with three leading European corporate finance firms (UK based Clearwater Corporate Finance, Scandinavian firm Advizer and IMAPLynx based in Spain and Portugal), creating Clearwater International. Richard L. Wottrich Richard L. Wottrich, CEO and Senior Consultant, International Services, formed DSI Global View 25 years ago as an international consultancy. DSI assists businesses in researching, analyzing and implementing cross-border entry into new markets via IT, Joint Ventures and M&A. The DSI cloud-based virtual Global Networking Platform is composed...

[This article was originally published on September 28, 2015. DSI updates and republishes this article annually to draw attention to the plight of refugees worldwide.] Oh, a storm is threat’ning, My very life today, If I don’t get some shelter, Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away War, children, it’s just a shot away, It’s just a shot away, War, children, it’s just a shot away, It’s just a shot away 1969, Rolling Stones, ‘Gimme Shelter’, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, ‘Let it Bleed’ album This is now. Over 30,000 Palestinians gathered along Gaza’s border with Israel on Friday, March 30th, to vent their pent-up frustration in a protest that quickly turned violent. Israeli forces reportedly killing 15 at the border fence. In the course of Israel’s creation in 1948 and its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, more than half the Arabs living in pre-1948 Palestine are thought to have been forcibly displaced. Today, some 5 million Palestine refugees are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Palestinians represent one of the oldest refugee populations on earth. South Sudan has suffered years of civil war in the process of becoming a nation in 2011, leaving it one of the poorest countries in the world. South Sudan cannot provide its people the basics of adequate healthcare, education, and income opportunities. Children are paying the price with their lives. More than 5.7 million South Sudanese cannot feed themselves, and food insecurity continues to rise, poised to reach six million in 2018. Nearly four million people are displaced because of conflict and hunger, including two million who have fled to neighboring countries since December 2013. Uganda hosts more than one million refugees from South Sudan; 60 percent of the displaced are...

December 30, 2017 By Richard L. Wottrich, Senior Consultant, International Services There are shadows in 2018 that are contradictory. Central banks are turning off the stimulus spigots at an excruciatingly slow pace. Yet the entire U.S. yield curve is flattening and a steep credit market correction is in the cards. A Danish energy company just issued a 1,000-year bond with a maturity date of 3017, and some corporations are selling negative interest rate bonds. Global stock markets are at record highs, yet extraordinarily low volatility across most asset classes belies investor worries. Total global debt has topped 325 percent of total GDP as government sovereign debt jumps past $63 trillion [Pew Research Center analysis of International Monetary Fund data]. China’s shadow banking assets grew more than 20 percent in 2016 to 64 trillion yuan ($9.8 trillion), equivalent to 86.5 percent of GDP. The U.S. unemployment rate has fallen to a 50-year low, yet wages have hardly budged. And Congress just passed a corporate tax bill that blows a hole in the U.S. budget. Yet no one seems to be concerned. As Alfred E. Neuman said, “What me worry?” What are the “Black Swan” risks and events that could cause this ‘Alice in Wonderland’ world to collapse. Or is that just foolish worry. Has exploding technology taken the risk out of humanity’s endeavors? This is our take on plausible Black Swan risks on the horizon. Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Event Governments are concerned about North Korea’s burgeoning nuclear weapons program. We however are far more concerned about their ability to create an EMP event, which would detonate a nuclear device in...